That's a great album, Mike. I've been listening to this string quartet frequently during some period of time, it's addictive.
But by which mechanism can a digital recording sound better on vinyl?
serendipity?
i have thousands of digitally sourced vinyl pressings and most i prefer to the digital version i have. maybe the exception is when it's native dsd i prefer the native dsd mostly. but not many of those so maybe that is an accident?
really it would just be a bunch of mumbo jumbo to speculate technically. vinyl playback, particularly for well recorded digital, sometimes nails it. i buy lots of vinyl of current digital recordings and the majority go to another level on vinyl. which is why i buy them.
maybe the artists push the process harder?
it's possible that the vinyl mastering uses a higher level digital source than any commercial source for the digital. also; maybe i'm only listening to the streaming digital source, if i bought the file and put it on my hard drive it might be equal or batter, which i rarely do when i buy the vinyl.
{Micro's paragraph below).
and my vinyl playback is not chopped liver; so that does it's part. maybe it's me liking/preferring the colorations of my vinyl playback? or my system is tuned for my vinyl?